CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-12157

MediumCVSS 5.3
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.29%

20th percentile - higher than 20% of all known CVEs

Summary

The Simple User Capabilities plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'wp_ajax_nopriv_reset_capability' AJAX endpoint in all versions up to and including 1.0. This allows unauthenticated attackers to reset any user's capabilities.

Risk Assessment

An unauthenticated attacker can reset any user's capabilities, potentially leading to privilege escalation or locking out administrators.

Recommendation

Update the Simple User Capabilities plugin to a version later than 1.0 or disable it if no update is available. Verify that AJAX endpoints enforce proper capability checks.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

The Simple User Capabilities plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'wp_ajax_nopriv_reset_capability' AJAX endpoint in all versions up to, and including, 1.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to reset any user's capabilities.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS